In July we found out that my husband's company was disbanding their IT department and sending it to India. Given that I was 6 weeks out from having Henry, I refused to worry about it. It's not supposed to happen until the end of the year, and in the meantime he still has a job. He qualified for a few open positions in the company (8, I think, and 800 being laid off), but there were others who had been there longer who apparently got the jobs.
His company does some work for the government, and those contracts would have to have stateside contacts, so there were a few open positions with the new company. My husband applied for and got one of those positions, set to start Nov. 2.
Then Nov. 8.
Then Nov. 11.
In the meantime, they have been terrible about getting back to him about every question he asked, even small things like, "can I still work for the regular company until Nov. 10 since you changed my start date so I'm not missing any days?"
So Friday he called and asked my opinion about saying no to the job for the new shady company and instead continuing his hunt. It does mean that there is still no guarantees on the job front come 12/31 (although if he ends up there that long, there is an excellent severance package). But I respect his decision to not take the new position and hopefully something will come along that he'll be happy with, with a company that he'll be happy with. Here's to hoping we don't go down to a single income come January 1.
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Wow. Frustrating. Sorry he's having such a time. It's rough looking for a job these days - we'd love for my husband to find something elsewhere, but he doesn't have the time to really put effort into looking and it's not been a top priority since he DOES have a job now (even if it sucks). Keeping fingers crossed that your husband gets a job soon!
I think the thing that scares me more than the lack of income is that we all just got on his health insurance in July and so now there's the prospect of possibly being without insurance. I'm sure that it will work out, I just hate having to worry about it.
He has a good prospect with a company near mine, but the company's HR is a bit of a black hole so I'm hoping that since he has a referral that maybe he gets in - it's a really good company and I think he'd like it as much as his current company (which he loves). If he does get it, maybe we can see about getting DaddyFuss in next since they're in the same field :) It's not far from you at all.
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